Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

$44.12 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 51 $40.7 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

$1.867 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 66 $1.609 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Exchange rates:

Slovak koruny (SKK) per US dollar - 21.05 (2008 est.), 24.919 (2007), 29.611 (2006), 31.018 (2005), 32.257 (2004)

note: on 1 January 2009 Slovakia adopted the euro as legal tender

Communications ::Slovakia

Telephones - main lines in use:

1.098 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 75